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Guide AI agent workflows in Microsoft Foundry, from discovering models and preparing resources to deployment, evaluation, and troubleshooting.
Microsoft
Explore Microsoft developer tools, Azure Agent Skills, and public software projects. Compare cloud preparation, deployment, diagnostics, and application development resources, then follow the official repositories to understand which tools support the work you want to complete.
About Microsoft
Microsoft publishes developer software, cloud tooling, educational resources, and AI-related projects through its public GitHub organization. Its work spans editors and programming languages as well as service-specific tools, giving developers several entry points for building applications and managing their infrastructure.
Within this collection, Azure Skills packages cloud workflows for coding agents. Its instructions help route work through preparation, validation, deployment, diagnostics, and platform services. MCP configurations provide access to execution tools, while the Skills explain how to approach the corresponding Azure tasks.
These cloud instructions sit alongside broader projects such as Visual Studio Code and TypeScript. An editor, a language compiler, and an Agent Skill play different roles in development. Start with your application and hosting requirements, then choose the relevant repository rather than treating the entire Microsoft catalog as one package.
Selected Microsoft Skills
Explore Microsoft Azure Skills for preparing applications, checking deployment prerequisites, investigating production issues, and working with storage or AI services. Compare the scope of each workflow, its service requirements, and the expected inputs before choosing a method.
Azure-Prepare
Prepare an application for Azure by choosing services and generating infrastructure definitions, container configuration, and deployment plans before execution.
Azure-Validate
Check Azure deployment prerequisites, infrastructure definitions, configuration, and permissions so environment issues can be addressed before deployment begins.
Azure-Deploy
Run the Azure deployment workflow after preparation and validation, then inspect the deployment result and report the application outcome.
Azure-Diagnostics
Investigate Azure production issues through resource health, logs, metrics, and recent changes, with guidance tailored to the affected service.
Azure-Storage
Navigate Azure storage tasks across Blob, Files, queues, tables, and Data Lake, selecting service guidance that matches the workload.
Microsoft Open-Source Projects
Explore Microsoft software projects for writing, understanding, and maintaining application code. Review the editor and language tooling below, then visit the repositories for source code, contribution guidance, extension points, and current development documentation.
Visual Studio Code
Explore the source behind Visual Studio Code, a code editor with language services, debugging, extensions, and integrated development workflows.
TypeScript
Add a type system to JavaScript projects with TypeScript, using compiler checks and editor tooling to support application development.
More Teams and Creators
Explore developer tools, software projects, and Agent Skills from other teams and creators. Compare their areas of focus, representative work, and intended tasks to find more resources for development and collaboration.
Microsoft FAQ
How are Azure Skills different from Azure MCP tools?
Skills describe a workflow and the decisions an agent should make. MCP tools expose operations against services. The Azure Skills plugin combines both layers, so useful instructions and working tool access have separate responsibilities.
Which Skill should I use before deploying an application?
Start with azure-prepare to prepare the application and deployment files. Use azure-validate to check prerequisites before azure-deploy executes the deployment. These stages make the intended changes and required environment easier to inspect.
When is azure-diagnostics useful?
Use it when an existing Azure workload has a production problem. Its workflow investigates symptoms, resource health, logs, metrics, and recent changes, rather than starting by generating a new deployment.
Does installing an Azure Skill create a subscription or grant access?
No. Instructions do not create an Azure subscription or confer resource permissions. The tools need a configured identity and the access required for the target subscription, resource group, or service.
Is the vscode repository identical to the installed Visual Studio Code distribution?
The repository contains the Code - OSS source project. The Visual Studio Code distribution includes Microsoft-specific branding and distribution customizations; consult the repository explanation when building or redistributing it.
Where does TypeScript fit into Azure development?
TypeScript adds type checking and tooling to JavaScript development. It can support application code regardless of hosting provider; it does not itself deploy an application or replace Azure infrastructure configuration.
Explore Microsoft Projects and Skills
Start with the task you want to complete, compare the selected Skills and software projects, and open their original documentation to understand the workflow, environment, and integration options before choosing your next step.